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Galileo Spirals Out of Control
ISBN: HB: 9783035803723, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Who is throwing melons and pumpkins from the highest tower in Pisa? It's the mad scientist Galileo Galilei, confounding the old ideas of the Greeks around Aristotle. This strange old fellow does science everywhere, even in the taverns! When Galileo m...
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£10,99
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Glance of the Medusa The Physiognomy of Mysticism
ISBN: HB: 9780857426086, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
In "The Glance of the Medusa", Laszo F. Foldenyi offers a mesmerizing examination of the rich history of European culture through the lens of mythology and philosophy. Embracing the best traditions of essay writing, this volume invites readers on a s...
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£21,99
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Georg Simmel Essays on Art and Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226621098, ISBN: HB: 9780226620930, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influentia...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Geschlecht III Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780226677460, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
168 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III". The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a g...
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£22,00
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes
ISBN: PB: 9780300227437, Yale University Press, July 2018
144 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant's conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This...
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£8,99
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Government of Desire A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject
ISBN: HB: 9780226547374, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in "The Government of Desire", is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic longing for...
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£34,00
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Gestation of German Biology Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling
ISBN: HB: 9780226520797, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural...
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£34,00
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Gift of Death Literature in Secret (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226502977, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
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£12,00
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Given Time I. Counterfeit Money
ISBN: PB: 9780226504315, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
182 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundament...
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German Idealism as Constructivism
ISBN: HB: 9780226349909, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"German Idealism as Constructivism" is the culmination of many years of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore – it is his definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between proponents of representationalism and those of con...
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£36,00
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